When I was a child probably the age of 5 years I was lying on a floating bed on a water canal. I remember it was a beautiful day my sister and cousins were there we were all enjoying ourselves soaking up the sun, swimming the usual things children do. My sister and cousins were sitting on the embankment talking however I was lying on the floating bed soaking up the sun as I lay there dry, peaceful I was unaware of what was about to happen in the next few seconds that to this day has changed my life and how I see things.

Because I was not the best of swimmers back then in fact I could not swim I could only tread water I was not about to swim by myself so I lay there sunning myself on the floating bed taking in all of natures wonders but I drifted off to sleep my slumber turned into panic as I realized I had fallen off the floating bed into the deep canal. I slowly drifted down trying to save myself I tried desperately to swim back up but as the light from the sun grew dimmer in the murky water I was losing the battle to stay afloat but with with every downward sink into the abyss I noticed how calm and serene it was becoming almost peaceful ,almost a delight a warmth I enjoyed. A glow was around me I could see myself face down nearly at the bottom of the canal arms, head dangling lifeless yet all was calm. As I lay there at the bottom a calming voice said..."it is not your time". Suddenly I felt like I was pulled up from the abyss awoken ,the next thing I was back on the floating bed awake puzzled and confused I yelled to my sister who was still talking with my cousins on the embankment... who got me ?? who saved me ?? She looked at me with contempt as I interrupted her conversation. She replied saved you ?? Yes I said I fell off the bed I repeated WHO SAVED ME ??? Perplexed and irritated she replied you have not gone anywhere!

Puzzled and I thought I must of been dreaming I wondered what happened ? Was it a dream ?? But it felt so real ??? It was then I realized I was fully wet. I yelled back to my sister I must of fell off I`m wet ! She replied who knows but your there now and went back to her conversation.

Was it a dream ? Was it just perspiration from lying in the sun. The answer is and only I can say for a fact it was real it was not a dream I felt a presence and warmth I was wet not from perspiration I was wet from being in the water I felt a warmth that like only a mother can give of a newborn a knowing of love .. still to this day it stays with me the presence of someone watching me I call it my lil voice, my conscious friend the only friend who sees me through whether i make the right choices or wrong whether good or bad times my friend is there and helps me to grow into I hope a person that is not unkind nor of un love that wants to help and to make a difference who is generous with little of what he has. With me I believe in someone watches over us I believe we are all here for a reason. What that reason is only your road can tell and sometimes you may not know or never know of why you are here but when you think about how we all even became to exist, how out of millions upon millions of perplex arrivals of coincidences came to make up our generic being how out billions of billions of stars countless galaxies who knows multiple universes are indeed surrounding us. I can come to only one conclusion we know little of ourselves. Could there be a God ? Could we come from another alien species? Or could it all be one big coincidence ? I will leave you with this our planet that if only it was 1 degree off where it lays between the sun and our moon was any different you and I would probably not be having this topic our world and everything in it would be unrecognizable as we see it today. Coincidence ? or something else I truly believe in.....something else.

When you research NDE testimonies on this site, you will encounter many which tell of such things as, "a hand coming out of nowhere to help", "saved through being lifted from danger", "high speed vehicles on collision course that end up passing through each other", etc.

Listen to last night's C2C program about "Doctors Miracle Stories" with pediatric specialist, parenting expert, speaker, and educator, Harley Rotbart, MD who told of miraculous medical events (cures, recoveries, and "awakenings) witnessed by leading physicians for which there was often no reasonable medical explanation.

Some of these included:

- A priest visiting a hospitalized patient went into cardiac arrest on the elevator, which opened up on the cardiac floor, right at the foot of the cardiac specialist, at just the right moment.

- A young man whose only hope for survival was a heart transplant, but just at the moment he developed a potentially fatal complication making a transplant impossible, his own heart began healing itself.

- A woman who conceived and delivered a healthy baby―despite having had both of her fallopian tubes surgically removed.

- A nine-year-old boy who was decapitated in a horrific car accident but survived without neurological damage.

================================================================================================================I was in water that was barely to my hips, and I don't remember feeling anything other than relaxation and enjoyment of the moment. When I decided to try to return to the beach, I noticed the flow of water at my feet. It was moving swiftly outward, and I tried to pull my legs forward to slowly inch my way back. Instead, the water was moving upward on my body, toward my waist.

I remember feeling foolish. The water wasn't very deep, and what would my friends think if they had to come and 'save' me from shallow water. I also knew that I could not get back to shore on my own. I remember calling for help, repeatedly, and no one heard me. I could see my friends at the pool, and further down the beach, but there was no one any where close to me, on the beach or in the water. I remember wondering where everyone had gone, and how had I managed to get myself into this situation.

I forming the thought in my mind that 'I am going to die' and experiencing fear for the first time. Then, I remember thinking 'It is not my time'. My next thought was "Perhaps this is the way that everyone feels, before they die". I think I remember feeling a feeling of resignation, of surrender. I don't remember thinking about anything else, or about anyone else at that point.

My next memory is of the presence of two 'men' ( I know they were male beings) on my left side, and of a hand on my left hand guiding me back to the shore. I remember looking down at my hand, and at my engagement ring, and knowing that I would never marry my fiancé.

I must have said thank-you to these 'men'. I would have said it many times, but I have no memory of doing so. There were no words spoken, at any point. Although I know these were a male presence, I remember not being able to see their faces. I distinctly remember feeling a hand, a physical hand, on my own, and feeling that my life was now spared, that I was now safe.

Once on the shore, I remember looking back into the water, and along the shoreline. There was no one there, except for people visible off in the distance, and back at the hotel. Walking or running on sand is not easy. It was impossible for anyone, to have moved with such haste away from that spot on the beach. I know that I was 'alone' prior to my experience - there was no other human presence near to me. To me, the only possible explanation was that my life was saved by two 'male' angels.